Tenpai Dragon Deck #762169 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 52/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Tempo
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro and Link pressure from Tenpai Dragon starters (Paidra, Genroku, Fadra, Chundra) into the 15-card Extra Deck (Bident Dragion, Transcendent Dragion, Trident Dragion, Promethean Princess, Knightmare Phoenix); Hand-trap and Synchro interaction that lets the board survive and keep attacking across turns
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Tenpai starter or Sangen search, then develop a Synchro or Link using the Tuner and FIRE Dragon bodies; keep a hand trap up for the opponent's first Special Summon or activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand to disrupt the opponent's first board with hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird, Skull Meister, Maxx C, Infinite Impermanence) and then rebuild through Tenpai Dragon recursion
• Recovery: Recover through Pot of Sloth and Mulcharmy Purulia draws, Sangen Summoning/Kaimen searches of Tenpai Dragons, and Fadra's revival of Level 4 or lower FIRE Dragons from the GY
• After siding: No side deck is registered (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adjust between games in a best-of-3

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional Tenpai Dragon plan reasonably often: three copies each of Paidra and Genroku plus Sangen searchers give a core that is at least one card in hand about 90% of the time by the proxy estimate, and the Sangen searchers add redundancy. Its real strength is the system around the engine: fourteen hand traps and nine interaction spells and traps give it layered interaction that can stop the opponent's first board and keep its own Synchro and Link pressure alive, which earns the endboard and going-second scores. Pot of Sloth, Maxx C and Purulia keep the card economy going, but the deck has no recorded boards, no side deck, and no dated meta sample, so the ceiling and median scores are inferred from the card text rather than observed; the score does not come from Tenpai Dragon being a popular archetype or from averaging the individual card scores. Popularity and the single guide only confirm the list is real and playable; the score rests on consistency, median output and interaction on the system.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange (meta-neutral: D13 dropped, weights renormalised over the remaining 95). Structural ≈ 57.9, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); no Side Deck (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, D13 dropped from Structural): 0.80*57.9 + 0.20*50 - 4 = 52.3

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ — (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Core engine redundancy: three copies each of Paidra and Genroku with Sangen searchers
• Dense interaction: fourteen hand traps plus Heavy Storm, Harpie's, Lightning Storm and Dominus Impulse
• Strong card advantage from Pot of Sloth, Maxx C and Purulia
• Full 15-card Extra Deck with Synchro and Link threats of 2500-3000 ATK

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Low exact-name purity (14.5%) and 47 off-archetype copies make the engine less coherent
• Several Limited cards (Chundra, Sangen Summoning, Heavy Storm, Maxx C) raise exposure to banlist changes
• Missing Sangenpai Transcendent-style core cards reduces the ceiling compared with the usual list

Critical choke points

• Sangen Summoning and Tenpai Dragon Chundra are Limited single copies that anchor the Sangen search line
• If the opponent answers the first FIRE Dragon starter, the rebuild depends on Fadra revival and Sangen search

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 within Master Duel size rules; Legal copy counts for all 8 restricted cards; Archetype core inclusion from usage stats (Tenpai Dragon Fadra and Chundra at 100%)
• Inferred: Starter access and brick rates from the hypergeometric estimates; Endboard and interaction quality from card text; Median and ceiling outputs from text, not recorded boards; Going-first and going-second splits
• Provisional: Meta Power and D13 matchup fit (no dated meta sample); Tournament reliability (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck registered, so post-side performance cannot be assessed